News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation

Altay, Sacha; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis; Fletcher, Richard

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“…Chen, Xiao, et al, 2023;Metzger et al, 2021), overall providing a useful overview of topdown knowledge concerning a wide range of motivations for misinformation sharing. These include motivations relating to political identification (Morosoli, Van Aelst, Humprecht, et al, 2022;Osmundsen et al, 2021), interpersonal beliefs and goals (Balakrishnan et al, 2021;Talwar et al, 2019), social costs (Altay et al, 2023;Lawson et al, 2023), moral judgments (Joyner et al, 2023), anger toward the government (Wintterlin et al, 2023), third-person perceptions of misinformation (Yang & Horning, 2020), entertainment, and self-expression (X. Chen et al, 2015).…”

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Why Do People Share Political Information and Misinformation Online? Developing a Bottom-Up Descriptive Framework

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Husbands

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Social Media + Society

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Social media users are key actors in the spreading of misleading or incorrect information. To develop an integrative parsimonious summary of social media users’ own accounts of motives for sharing political information, we conducted: (1) a literature review of motives for personally sharing false information as reported by social media users and (2) qualitative research concerning these motives using an innovative, ecologically valid method. Based on our findings, we developed a pool of items evaluating social media users’ motives for sharing false political information, which we then tested and analyzed the dimensionality of in (3) a pre-registered questionnaire-based study to identify key clusters of users’ own accounts of motives for sharing both true and false political information. The current findings show that there are distinct sets of motives people report for their misinformation sharing behavior: prosocial activism, attack or manipulation of others, entertainment, awareness, political self-expression, and fighting false information. Also, these sets of motives are associated with variables known to predict sharing misinformation, and some of these sets predict social media users’ self-reports of having shared misinformation in the past. Our findings highlight and elaborate on users’ motives that reflect a concern with “making things better” and acting in a manner that is beneficial to society as a whole, and suggest that different interventions may be required to combat misinformation sharing driven by different motives. A potential set of 18 items that could be used in questionnaires measuring motivations for sharing political news online is described.

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Why Do People Share Political Information and Misinformation Online? Developing a Bottom-Up Descriptive Framework

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“…In addition to being important in itself to understand how different news media systems are evolving, this also has wider implications as research suggests that while people learn from following the news, including online (e.g. Altay et al 2023), there are not necessarily any similar benefits from following the news via social media (e.g. van Erkel and van Aelst 2020).…”

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Comparing the platformization of news media systems: A cross-country analysis

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Fletcher

2023

European Journal of Communication

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Platformization has been used to describe how platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, WhatsApp and TikTok have become increasingly important for how people communicate and access information, including news. But to what extent have news media systems in different countries become platformized? Using online survey data from 46 countries, we show that: (a) although over 90% of internet users use at least one social platform, there are large country differences in the proportion that use them to access news; and (b) large country difference in the proportion that still go directly to news websites and apps. Furthermore, we find (c) that country differences at least partly reflect path dependency, more specifically the historic strength of the newspaper market leading to lower levels of news platformization and continued high levels of direct access. These findings show how platformization varies in different parts of the world, provide a framework for capturing how it changes over time, and highlight the potential benefits of bringing together platform studies and comparative media systems research.

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“…Esta disminución se da en mayor medida en las personas de tendencias progresistas. Existe una abundante literatura sobre los efectos de la ideología sobre la credibilidad y la intención de compartir contenidos falsos y, en menor medida, de odio (Allcott y Gentzkow, 2017;Altay, Nielsen y Fletcher, 2023;Bauer y Clemm von Hohenberg, 2020;Grinberg et al, 2019;Guess et al, 2019), pero este trabajo permite comprender con mayor detalle los mecanismos a través de los que sucede.…”

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“…También se ha observado que el efecto directo y positivo de la exposición a mensajes que contienen falsedad y/u odio sobre la intención de compartir se da principalmente en las personas de mayor edad. Se confirman, por lo tanto, algunas observaciones previas, que apuntaban que las personas de más edad eran más susceptibles y vulnerables ante los contenidos que estamos estudiando (Altay, Nielsen y Fletcher, 2023;Baptista et al, 2021;Galarza Molina, 2021;Golob et al, 2021;Rodríguez-Pérez y Canel, 2023).…”

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“…En el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 también se observó que el consumo de noticias se asociaba con una menor credibilidad de la desinformación sobre la pandemia (Bridgman et al, 2020;Dhawan et al, 2021;Romer y Jamieson, 2021), si bien el efecto era contrario si la exposición se daba con Fox News (Jamieson y Albarracin, 2020). Así, encontramos que hay un elevado acuerdo sobre cómo el consumo de medios informativo incrementa la resiliencia ante la desinformación (Acerbi et al, 2022;Altay, Nielsen y Fletcher, 2023;Humprecht et al, 2020).…”

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Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español

Blanco Herrero

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Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español Lies, Prejudice and Rejection. The Use of Disinformation to Spread Hate Speech against Migrants and Refugees in Social Media: A Comprehensive Study about the Spanish Case 17 frequently cited report from Gartner Group (2017) mentioned, perhaps simplistically, that by 2022 the Western public would consume more false information than true information and that there would not be enough capacity to counteract it. The year in question has arrived and, although measurement is still impossible, it seems that reality has not met the most alarmist forecasts. The problem, however, is real and its seriousness is beyond doubt, as demonstrated, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic.Already in February 2020, before the official declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) drew attention to the need to combat the 'infodemic', understanding as such an overabundance of information -partly true and partly not-, which made it more difficult for people to find reliable information when they needed it and which posed an additional risk to the spread of the disease (OMS, 2020). Along the same lines, the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, affirmed that "[w]e are not only fighting against an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster than the virus and is just as dangerous" (Ghebreyesus, 2020).Although the WHO, the media and a large part of academia have frequently used the term 'infodemic', many studies have focused on one of its specific aspects, disinformation (Bechmann, 2020), since the hoaxes and rumors about vaccines, treatments and the spread of the virus have not been limited to a problem of communication and public trust, but have had a direct effect on health and were even responsible for deaths (Islam, Sarkar et al., 2020).

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News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation

Cited by 24 publications

References 52 publications

Why Do People Share Political Information and Misinformation Online? Developing a Bottom-Up Descriptive Framework

Why Do People Share Political Information and Misinformation Online? Developing a Bottom-Up Descriptive Framework

Comparing the platformization of news media systems: A cross-country analysis

Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español

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